Author Steaphan KayOct 12, 2024

I sometimes like to give the people pinging me with their "author services" the benefit of the doubt. The attached image is one such conversation in which the person gave me a book marketing pitch (clearly GPT generated) on using book trailers. So, I glanced at one of their trailers posted on FB, and the answer to the veracity of the "professional" question was immediate.

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